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The New Arab
April 28, 2018
Saudis took to social media platform after a wrestler waves an Iranian flag at WWE fight in the kingdom, which many felt lacked in taste. ... Saudi Arabia is locked in Yemen's civil war and has been bombing the Iranian-backed Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa and much of northern Yemen. The youngÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 28, 2018
"There are 80,000 Iranian forces scattered around Syria, and Israel is rightfully concerned. Iran is trying to control Damascus as much as Beirut. There are growing tensions between Western powers and Iran, ahead of 12th May deadline set by US President Donald Trump, who has threatened to pull out ofÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 28, 2018
But on April 9 an airstrike was launched against the Iranian T4 base which the Syrian regime blamed on Israel. “The airstrikes will continue,” said Mr Makki, “a lot of people thought the strikes on the T4 base was a response to the chemical attack, but it wasn't.” He added: “Israel are terrified of Iran installingÃâà...
Open Democracy
April 26, 2018
A further issue is Iran's sway over the Shi'a government in Baghdad, which reportedly now includes close Iranian input in the redevelopment of Iraq's own military-industrial complex. Israel sees this as further proof that Iran is spreading its military influence across the region (see "Syria's wars: a newÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 26, 2018
Mr Lieberman told the London-based, Saudi-owned news website Elaph: ”Israel doesn't want war but if Iran attacks Tel Aviv, we will hit Tehran. ... An Israeli-Iranian showdown has been looming since February 10, when Israel said an armed drone which was sent from a Syrian base penetrated its air space.
Vox
April 25, 2018
In the early years of the Syrian civil war, Israel largely kept to the sidelines. The exception was with regard to what Israel considered its two red lines: Iran sending newer and more advanced weapons to Hezbollah through Syria, and the establishment of a pro-Iranian terror network on the Syrian border withÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 25, 2018
The headlines from the Syrian civil war and the fight against Islamic State have obscured the harsh truth that Iran, animated by its own version of radical Islam, has explicitly sought Israel's destruction since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. It has backed up its religious fervour with a pragmatic and deadlyÃâà...
New York Times
April 15, 2018
SYRIA-ISRAEL BORDER, Golan Heights — Ever since the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran and Israel have been fighting each other in the shadows — through proxies, assassination squads and cyber-virus attacks, but never as rival armies meeting on the field of battle. That may be about to changeÃâà...
Fast Company
March 23, 2018
Much as he backed the Iraq War long after its premise was proven to be fraudulent, Bolton has insisted, without evidence and in defiance of the International Atomic Energy Agency's assessment, that Iran is not honoring its commitment to constrain its nuclear program, and that military invasion is necessary.
The Guardian
March 23, 2018
While the 2015 agreement with Iran was being negotiated, he wrote a piece decrying the whole exercise in the New York Times. That was headlined: “To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran.” Bolton has repeated these lines repeatedly on television, and Trump is widely reported to have chosen him because of hisÃâà...
CNN
March 23, 2018
Bolton also publicly accused Cuba of providing "dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states." Years later, after leaving his post as ambassador to the UN, he pushed to expand the Iraq War into Iran. More recently, he's pushed for unilateral strikes in Iran and North Korea, while casting doubt on Russia'sÃâà...
Democracy Now!
March 22, 2018
Journalist Mehdi Hasan and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink, discuss how the United States is siding with Saudi Arabia in its feud with Iran and ... Iranian-backed Houthi rebels were responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and defended his claim that Iran's self-appointed spiritual leader,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 22, 2018
“Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” Trump tweeted this month — an inane echo of Cheney's hubris about the Iraq war. The second ... This would lead to soaring tensions, the possibility of an Israeli strike on Iran, a risk of Saudi-Iranian conflict and a danger of war between the United States and Iran.
The American Conservative
March 22, 2018
But the strong likelihood that Donald Trump will now choose John Bolton as his next national security advisor creates a prospect of war with Iran that is very real. .... Bolton was apparently hoping the Iranian military would not agree to any IAEA inspections based on such bogus claims, thus playing into hisÃâà...
The Times
March 12, 2018
Israeli military intelligence and satellite technology have identified at least ten Iranian military bases in Syria as the threat of war between the two rises. The bases are home to tens of thousands of troops from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which conducts overseas operations, as well as missiles andÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 12, 2018
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Tehran will loan $3 billion to help Baghdad with the restoration of its infrastructure after the defeat of the Daesh terrorist group in the country, Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said on Sunday. "Iran is ready to provide Iraq with a credit line of $3 billion in order to increase theÃâà...
Atlantic Council (blog)
March 9, 2018
First, Iran initiated the drone launch into Israel and this indicates that Tehran is changing its rules of engagement in Syria. Second, given the build-up of Iranian proxies in Syria, the next war will involve not only Hezbollah, but also a variety of Iranian allied militant groups in Syria operating in a single securityÃâà...
Newsweek
March 3, 2018
Violence has continued in all of at least four conflicts raging concurrently in Syria, inflating the death toll of a seven-year war that showed little signs of calming down anytime soon. The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported Friday that military helicopters dropped leaflets with instructions on howÃâà...
The Conversation UK
March 2, 2018
Shortly before this, an Israeli fighter jet was shot down by Syrian anti-aircraft fire while the Israeli military engaged directly with Iranian forces in southern Syria. Netanyahu duly dialled up his rhetoric and made it clear that Israel would be prepared to go to war not only with Iranian proxies, but with Iran itself.
Breaking Defense
March 2, 2018
Danny Sjursen, expressing his own unofficial opinions, says Iran is Jim Mattis' blind spot and that his boss is wrong in his assessments of the country. ... Last week, after Israel reportedly shot down an Iranian drone and Prime Minister Netanyahu proudly displayed a hunk of twisted metal as a war trophy,Ãâà...
Toronto Star
March 2, 2018
Where will the world's next catastrophic war erupt? And what will trigger it? However risky the North Korean nuclear stalemate remains, the more likely battleground once again appears to be the Middle East. And the growing rivalry between the region's most powerful countries — Iran and Saudi ArabiaÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 2, 2018
A source close to Hezbollah fighters, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, told Al-Monitor that the recent February faceoff between Israel on one side and Iran, Hezbollah and Syria on the other was an ambush staged by Tehran. On Feb. 10, Syria shot down an Israeli F-16 fighter jet, after an IranianÃâà...
The Economist (blog)
March 1, 2018
Americans have killed Russians. And long-standing tensions between Iran and Israel have flared. Why is Syria's war heating up again? Part of the answer lies in the collapse of IS and the scramble for territory that ensued. In October Raqqa, the capital of the self-styled caliphate, fell to the Syrian DemocraticÃâà...
Haaretz
March 1, 2018
The U.S. charged that a lack of a regional strategy to counter Iran, that is considered to be a staunch supporter and funder of Hezbollah, is accountable for the Shi'ite terror organization's ability to have amassed a significant amount of ammunition to the point that it boasts of a rocket factory capable ofÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 1, 2018
The Iranian drone that flew into Israeli airspace from Syria earlier this month was never really a threat for Israel's powerful air force, but its short flight has ... The incident has heightened fears that Iran's deep entrenchment in Syria, where the civil war is about to enter its eighth year, could spark a new andÃâà...
BBC News
February 21, 2018
Iran's deputy foreign minister says the situation with its ally Syria is "very complicated" amid growing concern a wider regional war could erupt. "Fear of war is everywhere in our ... An Israeli warplane targeting Iranian sites in retaliation was shot down by Syrian air defences. This week Israeli Prime MinisterÃâà...
The National Interest Online
February 21, 2018
It was the first Israeli fighter plane lost in combat since the 1982 war in Lebanon. Israel responded by launching a second wave of attacks on twelve Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria. Among those hit were Syrian SA-17 and SA-5 anti-aircraft batteries and Iranian forces deployed in the country to supportÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 20, 2018
They began on February 10th, when Iran's Qods Force launched an armed stealth drone from Syrian territory into Israel. After intercepting the unmanned aerial vehicle, Israel destroyed the command center and mobile launch vehicle from which it came. Iranian forces then opened fire with advancedÃâà...
The Guardian
February 17, 2018
Emboldened by a belief that Assad is winning, Iran is turning its eyes, and guns, on Israel – or so Israeli leaders believe. Their “red lines” – forbidding a permanent Iranian military presence in Syria and the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah – are being ignored. Israeli commanders are particularlyÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 16, 2018
A chain of events, allegedly beginning with an Iranian drone penetrating Israeli airspace on Saturday followed by the downing of an Israeli F-16 fighter by Syrian forces, led to a large-scale military strike in which Israel bombed a dozen of Syrian and Iranian targets on Syrian soil. Hossein Salami, the deputyÃâà...
New York Magazine
February 12, 2018
The Israeli air strikes that targeted an alleged Iranian drone base near the western Syrian city of Palmyra on Saturday were hardly Israel's first foray into the Syrian civil conflict. Over the past few years, Israel has intervened sporadically in its neighbor's civil war to prevent Iran from using it as a conduit forÃâà...
Newsweek
February 11, 2018
Israel responded with a much larger strike in Syria, attacking 12 targets including 4 Iranian targets, and at least four Syrian missile emplacements destroying all of the sites that fired on the Israeli planes. According to Israeli sources, it was the largest and most successful attack on the missile system in SyriaÃâà...
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's claim that Iran is hosting and supporting al-Qaeda leaders has been derided by Iranian officials as a “big lie.” In a “60 Minutes” interview aired on CBS March 18, Prince Mohammed said, “Unfortunately, Iran is playing a harmful role. The Iranian regimeÃâà...
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
“The Trump administration has tried to justify our involvement in the Yemen war as necessary to push back on Iran,” bill sponsor Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., ... for Houthi insurgents is of serious concern for all of us, the truth is that this war has increased, not decreased, the opportunities for Iranian interference.”.
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Russia and Iran have been shoring up ties with Middle Eastern allies Iraq and Syria, two countries where the U.S. has attempted to bolster its own influence amid the multinational fight against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). Russian and Iranian officials met Monday and Tuesday as part of theirÃâà...
The Australian
December 31, 1999
Until recently, Israel had mostly kept out of the war. But it has had to intervene from the air to block arms shipments from reaching Hezbollah, and to prevent Iran from establishing a presence near its northern border. Israel's involvement increased earlier this month when it shot down an Iranian drone thatÃâà...
